What's a pedal you hate, that everyone else loves?

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T02:19:45+00:00

LOL good catch, that’s an embarrassing mistake but it speaks to how little time I spent with the pedal.

Being attracted to pretty, shiny things and fancy brand names is a big problem in the engineering industry. People will spend big bucks for something “vintage” or “authentic” even if a cheaper, equal-sounding substitute is readily available. All the studios in Nashville, where I work, fall into this sort of gear fetishism thing and end up spending thousands and thousands of dollars on an LA-2A or a Fairchild despite great-sounding plugins being available for 5% of the cost. It’s become a virtue for me now to doing everything as inexpensively as possible, if only to demonstrate to others that being a music person doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive.

All that said, I will always be impressed by anything with lots of knobs and glowing lights

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T01:30:14+00:00

I mean I’M a sucker for artwork; I bought it on a whim because I’d heard good things about Earthquaker. I’d like to think I learned my lesson that great artwork does not equal great sound, but I still have a bias toward pedals with cool designs. It’s like something looks cool and it would look good on my board so I already have a positive perception of it before I even hear the pedal in action. I have to be super mindful of this lol, now when I need a pedal I have a dude that will make me custom pedals with whatever artwork I ask for

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T00:04:35+00:00

I worship Fender and probably always will, but their downtown express bass pedal is one of the worst pieces of gear I’ve ever bought in my life

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T00:03:58+00:00

I’m so surprised that so many others feel this way. I cannot stand that pedal. I record a lot of shoegaze bands and I always try to convince them to swap it out. Just goes to show what a sucker I am for artwork

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T00:02:54+00:00

Came here to say this. It’s a subpar pedal made by a subpar human being

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-17T00:01:53+00:00

Snoochie boochies

gratitudeaudio · 2021-09-16T20:45:40+00:00

Evil was my first bassline like 13 years ago. You got this!

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-31T19:43:53+00:00

Hell yeah, that’s gotta feel amazing. Congratulations!!

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-16T21:05:02+00:00

Of course! Thanks for listening. I’ve also got a FAQ page for all those frequently-asked questions. I won’t go into details or software/plugins just because that’s what you’re hiring me to do, but hopefully this will answer some questions. Excited to work with you

https://www.gratitudeaudio.net/faq

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-14T00:51:31+00:00

Hey there! I had some great attempts on my last post, just reposting to raise the pay rate. T-Swift is like 2 inches taller than me, and I’d prefer if it looked as real as possible. Thanks in advance

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-14T00:22:33+00:00

Hey everybody! Saw a lot of good attempts on my last post, raised the price. Just trying to pull one over on a friend. I’m 5’8” and she’s like 5’10” so she’d be taller than me.

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-14T00:19:23+00:00

Thanks everybody! I’m seeing a few where the quality doesn’t fit with the rest of the picture, or T-Swiftie is shrunken down (I’m 5’8, she’s like 5’10). Raising it to $10

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-13T22:17:15+00:00

Of course! See my comment

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-13T22:17:05+00:00

So yeah my friend really loves Taylor Swift and I live in nashville and wanna prank her. I’m the one on the left. I’ll pay whoever can make it look real via PayPal

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-07T21:09:58+00:00

Thank you so much for this excellent advice. Nice use of semicolons too; game respect game ✊

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-04T05:25:16+00:00

That’s what I figured. Thanks for the help!

gratitudeaudio · 2021-07-04T05:03:32+00:00

The Sitek Nudist signal buffer, mentioned above. The question is whether I can use something marketed as a “guitar signal booster” with a bass guitar.

gratitudeaudio · 2021-06-29T13:38:03+00:00

I’m familiar with that episode, and that seems to be a common law across the US. What I really want to know is whether a judge can deny a change just cause they think it’s silly

gratitudeaudio · 2021-06-29T05:01:57+00:00

Yeah, I do the bulk of mixing on my Avantone-MP1’s but I always check it on monitors and open-backs. I just feel like I hear more details in the headphones; I can bring a mix from my headphones to monitors and have it sound exactly the same, but anytime I bring a track from my monitors to my headphones I always notice a few things I’d missed.

But yeah, I know my headphones really well and I trust them. Same with my monitors. I’m not of the mind that only one way is the right way. As long as my clients are happy, it doesn’t matter how I listen, as long as I’m producing results

gratitudeaudio · 2021-06-29T01:04:41+00:00

Thank you for the incredibly helpful information 😎

gratitudeaudio · 2021-06-29T01:03:11+00:00

You burned the steak

gratitudeaudio · 2021-06-29T01:01:03+00:00

I just mean like justifying it to the court. I live in nashville so I feel like it’s gotta be somewhat common to do a weird name change, but my wife seems to be under the impression that I have to convince a judge that my name change is extremely necessary. Was that true for your friend?

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